Proxy Clips over 4GB get rendered mutlitple times (prelude)

[Adrian Kuchenreuther]

Hi all,

i went through the forum and google for a bit but couldn't find anything related to that problem. Just a lot of adobe/red workflow articles that did not help me out.
Hopefully you guys can help me out.

I got the following problem:
A single clip shot on red can/will be multiple files in the clip-folder, if the file size exceeds 4gb. For example:

A001_A001_0607AB_001.R3D (4gb)
A001_A001_0607AB_002.R3D (4gb)
A001_A001_0607AB_003.R3D (4gb)
A001_A001_0607AB_004.R3D (2gb)
and so on.
Let's just assume it's a 35sec take i did. The clips 001-003 are 10sec long and 004 is 5sec long.

If i import and encode my raw-files via prelude, the adobe media encoder takes every clip-part (001, 002, 003, 004) and renders the full clip with it.
So with the example from above, i'd get 4 clips, all 35sec's long, same file size.
Depending on the amount of clips, it multiplies the rendering time and also disc space.
For now i manually went through the render queue and deleted every clip that was not 001. It's fine, and i'm not losing any footage. It's just a pain in the a*** to do...

Workstation is a 5K imac. Adobe is the latest CC version (may 2015).


Thanks in advance!
cheers

 

[Terry VerHaar]

Is the a RED ONE or Epic/Scarlet?

 

[ericyoung]

Not familiar with Prelude, but if it can import Red RAW files it must be Red aware. Most software that is Red aware needs you to import via its own media browser within the application itself to see multiple clip files as a single clip.

Don't use drag & drop or Finder/Explorer to import.

 

[Adrian Kuchenreuther]

@Terry
We shot on Epic Dragon this time. But i had a project with Mysterium where the problem occured aswell.

@ericyoung
Yeah - prelude got it's own import dialogue. I used that to import all the files.

 

[Burke Doeren]

Yeah, you can run into this issue with Adobe Media Encoder too. Here's a workaround that I found usually works well:

+ Open the Finder import window
+ Navigate to the folder that contains all the RED footage you want to process
+ In the search field in the upper right of the finder window, type "_001.r3d"
+ Make sure you select only the current folder using the button at the top of the Finder window. You can change the Finder search preference to default search the current folder rather than your whole Mac (I definitely recommend it).
+ Select all of your _001.r3d clips and import them into Prelude or Media Encoder. Adobe will recognize clips that are longer than just the _001.r3d segment and automatically reference the other parts of the clip.

And that's it!

 

[Adrian Kuchenreuther]

Thanks Burke. Good and simple workaround now that you mention it. Better than first importing all of it and then deleting every non _001.r3d clip.
However, it would be cool if Adobe would fix that issue, so that there no longer is a problem you have to work around.